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Description: | Copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, roughly D-shaped, with large perforated suspension lug at top. The face of the mount is decorated with an intertwined serpent in bold relief. The debased head of the serpent is placed looking downwards at the central lower edge of the mount. Two bifurcating tendrils are visible, one on either side of the mount. A design has been inlaid in silver on the serpent's body. Traces of the iron stirrup loop survive along the reverse lower edge of the mount. A filled in rivet hole is visible just off centre.
The mount has been identified as falling within Williams' Class A type 17, of which only four debased examples have previously been recorded. This example is clearly one of the models that the debased examples were copying. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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